Of the kids who attended the now closed Gales Creek Elementary School last year, the district said it had accounted for 91 of 113 students, with 64 at Dilley Elementary School, four at other area schools and 23 at Tom McCall Upper Elementary School. This does not take into account incoming kindergartners who would have attended Gales Creek.

In addition, 15 students from Forest Grove are now enrolled at the Estacada Web Academy, mostly from the high school.

"There's some real volatility over the first couple of weeks," said Dave Willard, the FGSD director of human resources. "Those numbers we know are going to increase over the next few weeks toward Oct. 1. Oct. 1 is our best estimate."

However, Willard said that the district was bringing in smaller classes in K-4, speculating there could be economic factors at play while acknowledging that part of the reason could be parents choosing to enroll their children at private schools, online schools or home school.

"There's been a change as we're bringing in smaller classes at K-4 and our larger classes at the upper grade levels are moving on through," he said. "We know as the budget cuts were made some people took those other options."

Class sizes remained along district predictions. Through fourth grade, classes average about 28 kids each, while Tom McCall has an average of 31.6 students, Neil Armstrong 28 and the high school 30. At Dilley, which picked up 59 students over last year, class sizes were the smallest in the district at 26, tied with Echo Shaw Elementary School.

In other district business, the school board approved a one-year extension of its collective bargaining agreements with the Forest Grove Education Association and the Oregon School Employees Association by 5-0 votes. The agreements restore nine days of pay lost during the last school year.